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Most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Many people were dissatisfied with the user experience, finding it frustrating and ineffective for learning. Customers frequently encountered issues with the product, reporting that it often presented irrelevant or repetitive words and failed to adapt to their vocabulary level. The website itself was widely criticized for being outdated, boring, and difficult to navigate. Some people were dissatisfied with the service, mentioning that the program punished users for knowing words or for trying to skip ahead. Conversely, a small portion of people felt that the app was helpful for improving vocabulary and found it to be an easy and interactive tool for learning.

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

When I got the question wrong because i misclicked, a scary monster named Jayden drove his bus here and membeaned everywhere. He also forced me to eat the burger in vegas called the stay tuned burger.... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

OMG MEMBEAN IS SO DUMB, A 5 YR OLD MAKE THIS BS LIKE HOW IS A OFFICIAL SITE SOBAD!! IM 12 AND I COULD MAKE SOMETHING BETTER THAN THIS ABSOULOUTE BS!!!! I'M GONNA FIND WHOEVER MADE THIS DUMB WEBSITE, G... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Jeffery Dhamer (the world famous cannibal) came out of the screen when I got the word, "Тетрагидропиранилциклопентилтетрагидропиридопиридиновые" wrong. MIND YOU, I am taking English membean. Lebron, t... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I was just doing my membean until I got a word that said "epstien and Benjamin netanyahu island" and I got it wrong. After that I flowkirkenuinely got jumped by the memboner combined with Epstein's so... See more


Company details

  1. Educational Institution
  2. Education Center
  3. Private Tutor

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Membean equips teachers with innovative tools to help their students build a robust vocabulary. Students learn words in engaging ways and retain what they learn in long term memory


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TrustScore 1.5 out of 5

259 reviews

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

membean put me in a coma....

yesterday, I woke up with doctors surrounding me. they told me that I had been in a membean-induced coma for 15 years. I then realized that the last 15 years of my "life" weren't even real and I had spent 15 years sleeping in a bed. My parents had a new kid, the dog died, and my girlfriend had married my best friend.

11 March 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Membean sucks

Membean sucks, it is so boring and i do not even learn anything. We have things like Grammarly for a reason, there is no point and it is dropping my English grade a bunch

11 March 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Mr.Membean caught me lacking on the…

Mr.Membean caught me lacking on the word, “see”, so he took my iPad and chucked it across the room. I used to think Mr.Membean was just a chill guy, but then Membean turned him into a skibidi toilet. I love Membean 💀

6 March 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

My life was great before Membean,

My life was great before Membean,
When I go on Membean it makes life instantly sad.
This is the biggest waste of time in my school career. What most people don't know is Membean is a North Korean propaganda tool to ruin your life and make you sad for 15 minutes a day, 3 days a week. Don't use it, it will make you bored out of your mind and want to cry.

9 June 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

At first

At first, I thought Membean was just a normal vocabulary tool. You know, a nice, helpful website that gently improves your word knowledge. Oh, how naive I was.

One day, I skipped my Membean minutes. No big deal, right? WRONG.

That evening, my door creaked open, and a shadowy figure snatched my cat, Mr. Whiskerson. The only clue? A cryptic message on my screen: "Do your minutes, or your feline friend learns the true meaning of despair."

Panicked, I started my Membean session. Loquacious. Ephemeral. Ubiquitous. My hands were sweating. Time slowed. Was Mr. Whiskerson okay? Did he even know what "rigmarole" meant?!

At exactly the 15-minute mark, I received a final message: "Check your porch." There, in a small box labeled "COMPLIANT STUDENT," was my traumatized cat, now fluent in advanced vocabulary.

Since then, I’ve never missed a single Membean session. Ever. Mr. Whiskerson won’t let me. He just stares at me, eyes full of unspeakable knowledge, daring me to forget.

Would I recommend Membean? Absolutely. But beware: Membean doesn’t just teach vocabulary—it enforces it.

Final verdict: Membean is an effective learning tool, but also a psychological thriller. 10/10 would not risk missing my minutes again.

26 February 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

i had a family of 4 when mr membean…

i had a family of 4 when mr membean broke down my door mowed my wife 2 kids and my goldfish he then looked at me and said do ur 15 minutes i am in north mesadonia because of mr bean i can not recover from this becsase membean caused medeppresssop

21 February 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

DEEPER

I heard a KA BOOM in the room next to me and I saw membean and duolingo doing it saying did you do it "moan" yes "moan" i ran back than I started running back to my room then Diddy showed and said you can't get past me without me touching you then membean and duolingo appeared and said did you did your lesson then they started clapping saying yes yes yes deeper omg. So I was traumatized my whole life DONT DO MEMBEAN NOR DUOLINGO

1 January 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

membean why....

I was peacefully enjoying my very interesting life, doing my DUOLINGO (i had a 363 streak) until my teacher told me i was failing my class because i wasnt doing my membean... (This was not good bc i had like a B bc i forgot to do it) I told myself i would do it but... i forgot to do it again for another day, by this time the week was already over which meant that my teacher would put in the grades for it. My grades dove off a cliff... this time, i PROMISED myself, I WAS GOING TO DO IT. But when i was doing it the next day at 11:59pm duolingo texted me... the message read "im waiting for you... your streak..." I then started to fumble and mulittask trying to log into my phone for duolingo... it was too late... my 364 streak was gone. I tried to revive it but i could not revive or unfreeze it. I looked at my streak slowly fading into the distance, i whispered to it quietly "goodbye my well cherished streak..." then... with the last millisecond, the clock reached 12 am... my streak was gone.

30 January 2025
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Once upon a time I was a happy human…

Once upon a time I was a happy human citizen on planet earth. I had a loving family and an amazing life. But then membean came and It was so traumatizing I started edging. I vowed to stay away from mebean for the rest of my life. My teacher gave me a D in english because i didn't do my membean. My parents then disowned me cuz I'm not becoming a doctor with a D in english. Then I had to become a outcast and sell bottle caps for a living.

Btw membean if u want to stop traumatizing children you should make the images better quality and add animations to it.

20 January 2025
Unprompted review

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